Here we are again...
even more so,
Quiz 1 and looking ahead as below...
F Lydian
F G A B C D E F
Do Re Mi Fi Sol La Ti Do
F Major (Bb Key Signature)
F G A Bb C D E F
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do
Whole (W) Steps and Half (H) Steps in Major Scales (ex. C Major)
C D E F G A B C
W W H W W W H
Four Textures of Music - and definitions (n.b. "monophonic" adj / "monophony" noun, etc.)
Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed
Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed
Polyphonic - More than one line of music, w/ lines of equal importance
Homophonic - More than one line of music, w/ one line more important than the others
Listening
[5570] Syria - Hurrian Hymn No. 6
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/anon-b-c-1430-bc-syrian-cuneiform.html
[5949] China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
[6970] Asia Minor - Epitaph of Seikilos
(Turkey)
(Ancient Greek Cultural Area)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/asia-minor-turkey-seikilos-writer-b-c.html
***
Return
anon
after
the
DVC
San Ramon experience to
Compass
Point
after class,
and
there,
north
on
Tassajara Ridge Trail,
to
the
highpoint
northwest,
and
looping
around,
heading
homeward,
via
80
albeit
briefly,
and
soon
out
again
to
San
Francisco
for
Composers Chamber Orchestra Board meeting, on the 138th day of summer, high up 8, back to 90 --
Pleasant Hill, 85
San Ramon, 85
Vallejo, 77
Pinole, 65
San Francisco, 68
-- with the composition of page 8 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel VII - A Scholar Loves a Widow Lady and 12 for Variations on Variations of Brahms on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 268...
